Personal Vertical Farms + Blockchain technology will change how we grow, consume, and sell agricultural goods!
COVID-19 has shed light on a lot of significant problems within the agricultural industry. From the absurd amount of carbon emission to the lack of quality of fruits and vegetables stocked in every supermarket, hypermarket, & even street vendors.
Looking deeper into the carbon emission issue, the average person has very little knowledge on how the present agricultural scene has changed in so many ways that it has ended up heavily affecting our planet, & as well our overall health.
In the following part, France, a country known for its agriculture, was taken as a case study to learn more about the previously stated issues.
The main problems with the present agricultural scene :
Altering land for agricultural usage :
Agricultural production is responsible for almost 80% of global deforestation. Which has affected the natural habitat of a lot of the planet’s species and subsequently heavily affecting the climate.
As seen above, there has been a significant change in France’s natural forests due to the demand for more land to be used for agricultural usage.
The methodology for agriculture :
Although the advancement of science in agronomy in the last decade has helped farmers grow their crops in a more ecological manner, in terms of pesticide reduction and smarter water dispersion. It yet has to show any great advantage of the methodologies used in vertical farming, which in general uses no pesticides, up to 90% less water, and can grow at a much faster rate whilst having a better consistent output.
Food wastage :
Here is where the main issue comes into play, about one-third of all the world’s food goes to waste, where agricultural goods make up 45% of that waste. Which has to be significantly reduced, or eradicated in its entirety, if we want to see a change for the better in terms of reducing carbon emission.
The decentralisation of the agricultural scene
Since August 2020 our team at Élever Group has dedicated the time and energy to engineer a personal vertical farm in an attempt to solve these issues.
Our goal is simple and straightforward, it is to enable any society that has acquired V to become a DCSA (Decentralised Community Supported Agriculture).
V, which is short for Vita (meaning life in Italian), will be a host for hydroponic tower, two micro-greens compartments, and as well as a fungi compartment.
In the tech world V will be known as an IoT product, but unlike any other IoT -enabled personal vertical farm, V will work in a decentralized manner. Making it a far smarter personal vertical farm in comparison to the current competition.
DCSA (Decentralised Community Supported Agriculture)
To impact communities through this new concept of DCSA, we took a simple example of the complex city of Paris to showcase how this would be done in a simple and ecological manner.
Imagine a cluster of V’s within each district of Paris, interconnected through a DAPP (Decentralised App), where the needs of one district can be met through another’s capability of growing.
This is the future we envision at Élever Group! The simplicity of community helping one another through growing high nutritional foods in a cleaner manner, delivered on time without the need of the complexity of imports and exports and finally having true control on real-time trade between communities.
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